JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Fundamentals of Experimentation: Role of experimentation in rapid scientific progress, historical perspective of experimental approaches, Steps in experimentation, principles of experimentation

UNIT - II

Simple comparative experiments: Basic concepts of probability & statistics, comparison of two means and two variances, comparison of multiple (more than two) means and ANOVA

UNIT - III

Experimental designs: Factorial designs, fractional factorial designs, orthogonal arrays, standard orthogonal arrays and interaction tables, modifying orthogonal arrays, selection of suitable orthogonal array design, analysis of experimental data

UNIT - IV

Response surface methodology: Concept, linear model, steepest ascent, second order model, regression.

UNIT - V

Taguchi’s Parameter Design: Concept of robustness, noise factor, objective function & S/N ratios, inner array& outer array design, data analysis

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Montgomery DC, Design and Analysis of Experiments, 7th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2008.
• 2. Ross P J , Taguchi techniques for Quality Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 2008 R19 M.Tech. ENGG. DESIGN M. TECH. I Year II Sem. (ENGG. DESIGN)